http://dogsstealyarn.com/ en-us 2008-05-11T14:26:32-05:00 http://dogsstealyarn.com/archives/000784.html cari 2008-05-11T14:26:32-05:00 http://dogsstealyarn.com/archives/000783.html Yeah... When I said I had pretty much come to terms with Drowning Practice not selling, I thought I was telling the truth, but it turns out I lied to you and to me and to everyone else I fed... cari 2008-05-09T17:07:34-05:00 http://dogsstealyarn.com/archives/000782.html The spinach starts that I planted at the beginning of April are already ready to start feeding us. I harvested the first of it today, just taking the outer leaves to (according to my gardening books) encourage more growth.... cari 2008-05-06T21:36:25-05:00 http://dogsstealyarn.com/archives/000781.html ...yes. The blog will be renamed. I know what the new name will be, but don't want to reveal that just yet. Full disclosure: I decided on the new name about five minutes after I posted the entry about maybe... cari 2008-05-02T11:50:27-05:00 http://dogsstealyarn.com/archives/000780.html I'm thinking--just toying with the idea, mind you--of changing the name of the blog. Since there's now one dog, not two, and the one dog doesn't steal yarn. Since that one dog is a little old man who doesn't much... cari 2008-04-29T13:32:13-05:00 http://dogsstealyarn.com/archives/000779.html ...because I keep thinking I should post here and then keep putting it off. I don't have much to say. Thumper's terrific. The garden is growing. I've got a huge crush on Billy. All the usual stuff. It's rather quiet... cari 2008-04-28T13:20:31-05:00 http://dogsstealyarn.com/archives/000778.html Things are starting to come up in the garden. Little blades that want to be spinach, little spade-like shapes that want to be broccoli and kale. Tiny little green spots of leaves promising at beets. The strawberry plants look extremely... cari 2008-04-20T18:13:47-05:00 http://dogsstealyarn.com/archives/000777.html In Utopia, your neighbors turn up on your doorstep with eggs they've just gathered from their chicken coop. Aren't they beautiful? The white ones aren't actually white. They're a very pale blue. I've never had eggs quite this fresh before,... cari 2008-04-17T21:33:46-05:00 http://dogsstealyarn.com/archives/000776.html So I'll point you in the direction of my friend Michael Deibert, who has plenty to say and says it well.... cari 2008-04-15T13:01:54-05:00 http://dogsstealyarn.com/archives/000775.html But also a bit of wallowing and a bit of sulking. And all while weighted down by the tail end of a cold, and waking up on Wednesday morning with my top lip totally swollen by cold sores (boy did... cari 2008-04-13T17:28:45-05:00 http://dogsstealyarn.com/archives/000774.html I thought I’d tipped my hand in the previous post when I said that things were rather pointedly not going on on the publishing front, but I guess not. So here’s the thing. Drowning Practice is most likely going into... cari 2008-04-09T16:43:25-05:00 http://dogsstealyarn.com/archives/000772.html though not entirely healthy yet. But it's been long enough that I'm fairly confident I'm no longer contagious. A good feeling in and of itself, as I don't enjoy going out into the world with the sense that I'm dropping... cari 2008-04-07T19:03:34-05:00 http://dogsstealyarn.com/archives/000771.html It's been entirely too long since my last post, and I feel like I should want to do something entertaining here for you, but I have a cold--a nasty one--and all I want to do is hide under a blanket... cari 2008-04-04T14:09:42-05:00 http://dogsstealyarn.com/archives/000770.html The good thing about taking pictures of my first attempt at sourdough bread and then failing to blog about it for a week is that now I can show you the first two attempts at sourdough bread instead, since I... cari 2008-03-31T22:00:13-05:00 http://dogsstealyarn.com/archives/000769.html Sourdough. Right. Sourdough. I'm at the coffee shop, Sunday writing day, taking a quick break from the writing. I remembered to tuck the camera into my backpack so I could upload the sourdough pictures. What I did NOT remember was... cari 2008-03-30T15:25:29-05:00